Sentence examples for coercive police from inspiring English sources

"There are legions of cases of people without disabilities who have falsely confessed over time as a result of highly coercive police interrogation techniques," Professor Drizin said.

The facility was even unknown to Rob Warden, the founder of Northwestern University Law School's Center on Wrongful Convictions, until the Guardian informed him of the allegations of clients who vanish into inherently coercive police custody.

In early December, Ms. Gonzalez testified before a judge in New Jersey Family Court here that her charges were lies, brought on by coercive police officers and the influence of methadone.

The sanctioning by the courts of coercive police tactics is particularly worrying in light of the police and the Crown Prosecution Service's record of charging protesters with serious offences, such as violent disorder.

The lawyer for a 19-year-old man charged with beating his companion's 4-year-old son to death told a jury yesterday that his client was the victim of coercive police tactics, an 11-year-old girl who does not like him and a mother who physically abused her children.

Mr. Odeh, who has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from the embassy bombings and a broader terrorism conspiracy, filed his affidavit along with an extensive motion that cited coercive police tactics during nearly three weeks of interrogation in Pakistan and Kenya.

Sharkey's guess that the crime decline can be attributed to the uncomfortable but potent intersection of community action and coercive policing seems about as good as any.

Two days later, Ms. Gonzalez testified before a state Family Court judge that her accusations were a lie, brought on by coercive Camden police and her withdrawal from methadone.

Privately, some Met chiefs wonder how the disproportionately white force can retain its legitimacy while using coercive powers to police a city with a growing ethnic-minority population.

Much as the court wisely concluded 34 years ago, the Miranda warnings are an important safeguard for protecting the Fifth Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination in the coercive atmosphere of police questioning.

For social life, the key characterisitcs include social division by class, gender, and ethnicity; coercive institutions including law courts, police, and armies; and (sometimes) cities.